The Jolly Christmas Postman Award-winning team by Allan Ahlberg (author) and Janet Ahlberg (author)

Author/Illustrator

Allan Ahlberg

Allan has been delighting children of all ages for more than thirty years. Classic characters like Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman have become firm favourites with a generation of children who are now reading them to their own offspring. Innovative, funny and moving, his work encompasses storybooks, picture books, easy readers, joke books and novels as well as poems.

Many of his books were collaborations with his wife, Janet, an illustrator, and they quickly became one of Britain’s leading author/illustrator teams.

Influenced by comics and cartoons, their perfect partnership went on to produce masterpieces including Peepo!, Each Peach Pear Plum and The Baby’s Catalogue.

Janet sadly died in 1994, but Allan has gone on to work with other illustrators and is still producing lots of new books.

Reviews

1. Diane
   on 29 November 2012

   The jolly christmas postman

   This fantastic book has been shared and enjoyed for many years in our family! Our grownup children remember it from their childhood and a couple of years ago we got a new copy for our grandchild. We have recently bought another copy for our great nephew! We are so looking forward to seeing his delight when he looks inside.
   Five stars!!!

   5 out of 5

2. hazel
   on 29 November 2011

   the jolly christmas postman

   This is an amazing book as a family we bought this and the other postman titles when they were first published and now the family has grown up and we are enjoying it all over again buying for nephews nieces and friends children letting them share the magic and revisiting it ourselves

   5 out of 5

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1. readinglove123
   on 4 October 2013

   i like book like this i have a high level at school is a 4a i feel it is good

   5 out of 5

2. Sherlock25
   on 8 March 2013

   such a great book! no one can help but read it and pulling out the post

3. TheMileLongBookshelfBlog
   on 6 March 2013

   I had this book when I was little and I loved it because you could pull out all the letters and read them.

   5 out of 5

4. ZZZZebra
   on 3 January 2013

   I love this book. I read it every year at Christmas even though I am now 14… It is a lovely book and has beautiful pictures. I enjoy opening all the flaps and envelopes!

   5 out of 5

5. ruudy
   on 6 March 2012

   it is criminally funny!

6. leSquidge
   on 3 March 2012

   I love this book along with the original one its great lookig to see whats in the envelopes.

   5 out of 5

7. Partyfairy123
   on 2 March 2012

   I like it because there are lots of things in envelopes. He visits lots of fairy tale characters.

   5 out of 5

8. angelslater
   on 2 March 2012

   this book is great as you have to open envelopes aswell so its very fun